MARKETING & MEDIA [Design Indaba 2015] Conference highlights - Day three[Leigh Andrews] Did the Design Indaba 2015 conference save the best for last? Some say yes, with the audience hanging on every word of presentations by the likes of online video legend Casey Neistat and Israel's music game-changer Yoni Bloch... | |
MARKETING & MEDIA [Design Indaba 2015] Conference highlights - Day two[Leigh Andrews] From well-known spicy chicken brands and gourmet food trucks to cutting-edge fashion design, collaboration featured strongly (again) on the programme of the second day of the Design Indaba 2015 conference... | |
MARKETING & MEDIA [Design Indaba 2015] Dutch designers talk design inspiration[Leigh Andrews] On the second day of the Design Indaba 2015 conference, KLM's director of communications and corporate identity, Frank Houben, and designer Hella Jongerius spoke through the recent KLM business class redesign... | |
MARKETING & MEDIA [Design Indaba 2015] Conference highlights - Day one[Leigh Andrews] Speakers on day one of the 2015 Design Indaba conference said to look sideways in collaboration and backwards to past design for a successful future... | |
RETAIL Retail sales video marketing creates incredible opportunities[Gordon Barker] As video evolves, there are incredible opportunities in leveraging that content as a communications tool to help guide the customer or buyer's journey through the entire business life-cycle... | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Not love, but the right business model will bring us together[Ian Henderson] With all the successes of the Internet and globalisation, the dream was once for a global village of freely communicating, distance-trading world citizens... | |
LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT Real life imagined on the big screen[Daniel Dercksen] Truth is most definitely stranger than fiction in film and this week you can unravel the mystery behind a deadly conspiracy in Kill The Messenger, explore Stephen Hawking's mindscape with The Theory of Everything, and join a woman on her journey to absolute freedom in Wild... | |
MARKETING & MEDIA [Design Indaba 2015] Reinventing the wheel and other stories[Terry Levin] As the 20th annual Design Indaba Conference gets underway at Cape Town's CTICC, Terry Levin unpacks some of the infinitely inspiring insights presented by the world's leading global thinkers, doers and change-makers. | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Time to dump passwords for good?[Martin Walshaw] It's conceivable that one day biometrics may replace passwords completely, across many different services... | |
AUTOMOTIVE Opel Corsa ups the anteThis hot new Corsa has upped the ante. In the UK the Opel line carries the Vauxhall badge. | |
ESG & SUSTAINABILITY How sustainable is SAA's Project Solaris?[Sindy Peters] South African Airways (SAA) currently imports 100% of its fossil-based jet fuel. That said, the national carrier is currently on a mission to become the most sustainable airline in the world by 2022... | |
LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT Stand your way to a healthy work life - The DeskStand method[Cari Coetzee] Have you recently heard the phrase 'standing is the new smoking'? Have your colleagues started to get up at random intervals of the day, propping up their keyboards and screens and then just stand there working? | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Customer service remains the pillar of your PR strategy[Thabiso Dlamini] The role of public relations in an organisation remains an important aspect of its growth owing to the economic climate and technological developments we have witnessed... | |
EDUCATION & TRAINING Platform thinking is not a pipe dream; what SA can learn from Google[Edzai Conilias Zvobwo] Treat learners like platforms that can grow in intellectual potency to levels never imagined possible as opposed to pipes that are bounded by their very nature... | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Five beliefs about strategy execution that are just plain wrong[Sid Peimer] At the conclusion of strategy sessions we identify objectives and allocate responsibilities with timelines. It's all very clear. But... | |
MARKETING & MEDIA How to create a landing page that converts[James White] Whether you're trying to sell a new product or you want to convince customers to stick around and get to know your company and services better, there's a lot to consider when constructing the perfect landing page... | |
MARKETING & MEDIA A new approach to increasing profit[Harry Welby-Cooke] Conventional businesses over simplify their definition of profit as the difference between sales and expenses. With this approach, there are only three variables that can be manoeuvred or improved to influence profitability... | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Introducing the outside-in customer experience[Leigh Andrews] If your idea of offering good customer experience is based on the 4-star rating you just received, you may be in for a surprise, says Qaalfa Dibeehi, Forrester Research's Customer Experience lead for the EMEA region... |